Kim Jong-il (aka Юрий Ирсенович Ким) is amazingly one of the world's most visible self-pronounced idiots. The danger with folks like this is that they are incredibly clever and powerful.
Don't get me wrong, I have enormous respect for someone who can rule a nation so ineffectively in spite of himself. It is just that things like nuclear weapons aren't toys and should not be put into the hands of the uneducated and ineffective - which is what the latest crop of leaders in North Korea have proven themselves to be.
